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Algal periphyton Seasonally Flooded Nonvascular Alliance | Southeastern Ecology Working Gro...
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Name: Algal periphyton Seasonally Flooded Nonvascular Alliance Reference: Southeastern Ecology Working Gro... Description: This alliance includes vegetation dominated by algal mats in large, seasonally flooded depressions and flats in south Florida and the West Indies. Vegetation of this alliance consists of mixtures of cyanobacteria and green algae. The only known association in this alliance is broadly defined, and consists of a dense fibrous algal periphyton developed over thin layers of oozy marl overlying oolitic limestone. The cyanobacteria in the algal mats precipitate CaCO3, creating the calcitic marl. A very sparse growth of vascular plants sometimes occurs, including Eleocharis spp., Utricularia spp., or widely scattered and extremely stunted Rhizophora mangle. Chara spp. are sometimes abundant, and are typically imbedded in the algal periphyton. Occurrences of this alliance can be large (hundreds to thousands of acres).  Accession Code: VB.CC.19773.ALGALPERIPHYTON Plot-observations of this Community Concept: 0
	Party Perspective according to: NatureServe (organization) Perspective from: 26-Nov-1997 to: 01-May-2019
	status: accepted This Community's Level: Alliance This Community's Children: [none]		Names:   Scientific: Algal periphyton Seasonally Flooded Nonvascular Alliance   Translated: Algal Periphyton Seasonally Flooded Nonvascular Alliance   UID: HIGHER_CLASS_UNIT.2.125345 NatureServe Explorer   Code: A.1830